2011 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2011 West Coast Conference Men's
Basketball Tournament

2011 WCC Tournament Logo
Classification Division I
Season 2010–11
Teams 8
Site Orleans Arena
Paradise, NV
Champions Gonzaga (11th title)
Winning coach Mark Few (9th title)
MVP Marquise Carter Gonzaga
Television ESPN/ESPN2
Post-West Coast Conference
tournament(s)
2011 NIT, 2011 NCAA,
2011 CBI, 2011 CIT
West Coast Conference Men's
Basketball Tournaments
«2010  2012»
2010–11 West Coast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Saint Mary's 11   3   .786     25   9   .735
Gonzaga 11   3   .786     25   10   .714
San Francisco 10   4   .714     19   15   .559
Santa Clara 8   6   .571     24   14   .632
Portland 7   7   .500     20   12   .625
Pepperdine 5   9   .357     12   21   .364
Loyola Marymount 2   12   .143     11   21   .344
San Diego 2   12   .143     6   24   .200
† 2011 WCC Tournament winner
As of March 30, 2011 • Rankings from AP Poll

The 2011 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 4–7 at the Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas-area community of Paradise, Nevada to crown a champion of the West Coast Conference. In the third consecutive final that involved Gonzaga and Saint Mary's, Gonzaga won to secure its 13th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament.

Format

All eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament, with seeds based on regular season records. The top two seeds received byes into the semifinals while the 3 and 4 seeds received byes into the quarterfinals. The two semifinal games were televised on ESPN2, with the championship game broadcast by ESPN.[1]

Bracket

All Times Pacific

  First Round
Friday, March 4
Quarterfinals
Saturday, March 5
Semifinals
Sunday, March 6
Championship
Monday, March 7
5  Portland 68  
8  Loyola Marymount 72     8  Loyola Marymount 68  
         4  Santa Clara 76  
           4  Santa Clara 64  
           1  Saint Mary's 73  
               
               
           1  Saint Mary's 63
6  Pepperdine 84       2  Gonzaga 75
7  San Diego 81     6  Pepperdine 59  
         3  San Francisco 76  
           3  San Francisco 67  
           2  Gonzaga 71  
                    
                    
      

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